django-react-forum

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A single-page forum app made with Django and React.

This app allows users to register, login, create posts, and leave comments in the forum's message boards.

Screenshots

Homepage	Viewing a board

Viewing a post (logged out)	Adding a comment

Creating a post	Login Page

Technologies Used

Backend

• Written in Python 3 with Django
• Automatically tested with Travis CI
• REST API made with Django REST Framework
• Django REST Framework Simple JWT for authentication over REST API
• Django Webpack Loader to serve React client during development

Frontend

• Written in Javascript/ES6 with React
• Redux for managing app state
• Redux Thunk and Axios for interacting with REST API

Usage

django-react-forum depends on Python 3 and Node.js.

1. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/IvanFon/django-react-forum.git
2. cd django-react-forum
3. Create virtualenv: python3 -m venv ./env
4. source env/bin/activate
5. Setup database: python manage.py migrate
6. Install backend dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
7. cd frontend
8. Install frontend dependencies: yarn -D or npm install
9. Start frontend development server: yarn start or npm run start
10. cd ../
11. Start backend server: python manage.py runserver
12. Open your web browser and navigate to localhost:8000!